Extundelete won't install

[thumbdrive]

I figured my thumbdrive distro (KNOPPIX) would be the best place to have a utility to recover any files I might accidentally delete from my ext4 partitions.

But, I get unresolved dependencies related to e2fs when I try to install it. I checked with dumpe2fs and I have the version needed according to the extundelte website.

<rant>Why is is SO EXTREMELY HARD to install ANYTHING??? If you download the source, you have to go through the whole makefile mess which requires (among other things) a bunch of packages which aren't in the repos, or you can try the package route and end up with unresolved dependencies! </rant>

Is there a guide anywhere on how to actually get stuff other people wrote to compile in Linux?

[utu]

Greetings, thumbdrive.

What was the process you used to 'install' extundelete?

[utu]

Greetings again, thumbdrive.

Using Synaptic, I notice the following:
extundelete has 5 dependencies;
the first dependency, e2fslibs >= 1.41.99, is currently unmet; but,
this unmet dependency has a solution in the testing repo.

I would expect Synaptic to install extundelete AND to upgrade e2fslibs
if it has access to the testing repo.

I suggest you give Synaptic a try if you haven't.